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-====== Game Settings ======
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-When launching the game you'll get access to a menu allowing you to start a game (of course), to setup your preferences and graphical settings. Here's an overview of those options.
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+When launching the game you'll get access to a menu allowing you to start a new game or load an existing one and to setup your preferences and graphical settings. Here's an overview of those options.
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-===== Video and Sound Settings =====
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 On the left you can set the resolution for the game. The higher it is, the slowest it may be depending on your graphic card and system.
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 **Disable Interpolation:** May very slightly reduce the quality of the image to very slightly increase the FPS.
-**Cap FPS to 60:** //Recommended!// This is a top down 2D game, you don't need more. Depending on your computer, disabling this setting may render the user interface much less responsive.
+**Cap FPS to refresh rate:** This is a top down 2D game, you don't need 200 FPS. Disabling this setting may render the user interface much less responsive.
-**Enable Bloom Effect:** //Experimental!// This is not a recommended setting, it will improve the output noticeably but it is buggy at the moment and may cause the output to flicker a bit.
+**Enable Bloom Shaders:** If your computed supports the //full hardware acceleration// setting, it will improve the graphics noticeably by applying a slight shading effect. It may not work properly on all available hardware.
-**Animated background stars:** Amount of stars that are displayed in the background. Reducing it may improve performance on very old hardware.
+**Animated background stars:** Amount of stars that are displayed in the background. Reducing will improve performances on older hardware.
-**Sound:**  Not implemented
+**Full Hardware Acceleration** Switches between two rendering methods. Check the [[technical help|troubleshooting]] page for additional details.
-===== Controls =====
+**Disable Sound** It will completely disable the music and sounds.
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+**Sound Volume:** Set the volume of sound effects and the music.
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-The left panel allows you to change the default keys to your liking.
-Zoom sensitivity isn't implemented yet.
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+The left panel allows you to change the default keys to your liking. Select the line you want to change and press the new key.
+**Invert Mouse Wheel Zoom:** As the name implies, this option is used to decide the directions used by the mouse's wheel to zoom in and out.
+**Show Help Tooltips:** If check a tooltip will appear when hovering the mouse on the buttons, located in the main menu bar, with a reminder of the keyboard shortcut and use of each button.
 **Show targeting lines in sector map:** In sector map mode, red lines will be drawn between fighting ships and blue lines between ships that are flying together if checked.
 **Debug: Enable Event Logging:** If checked, the game will periodically save a log file in the "debug" folder. Check this if you are planning on reporting bugs on the forum.
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